Erosion of bones and pets, forensic mad concubine

Chapter 1530 Sudden pain in Rong Ling's temple!
Chapter 1531 Sudden pain in Rong Ling's temple!
Rong Leng is still quite human.

But the more Liu Wei thought about it, the more she felt that this method was feasible, she stood up suddenly, and she was about to go out.

Rong Leng grabbed her and pulled her back.

He was so powerful that Liu Wei was caught off guard, staggered and swayed, and knocked against the table.

There was still half of the tea that Rong Leng drank on the table, the cup shook, and the water poured down, soaking the scripture paper on the table all at once.

"Too bad." Liu Wei frowned, picked up the paper, and wanted to wipe it dry, but suddenly, she was so blessed that she looked at Rong Leng.

Rong Leng was taken aback for a moment, an ominous premonition welled up in his heart.

Sure enough, in the next moment, Liu Wei said: "I haven't tried water and fire yet, maybe it's an invisible character, come here, come and pour all these papers."

Rong Leng held down her eager hand, took a deep breath, and sighed: "It's wet, but I really can't sew it back."

Liu Wei obviously hesitated for a moment when he heard this, but in the end, his rationality was overwhelmed by the desire to find the truth!

She poured water on all the papers on the table, and then carefully identified each page by comparison.

A quarter of an hour later, she sat down again in disappointment, and whispered: "It's not water."

Then he raised his head again: "Then there is only fire left."

Standing behind her, Rong Leng felt a throbbing pain in his temple.

Liu Wei went all out, lit a candle, put the softened piece of scripture paper close to the candle and baked it again, after burning for a while, the invisible characters didn't come out, but a scorched mark was baked, and it almost didn't ignite.

Rong Leng blew out the candle, pulled Liu Wei to stand far away, and said: "I'll go to the bookstore to buy a new book, don't worry about it."

Liu Wei nodded with a complicated face, sitting on a chair and thinking.

Rong Leng was worried, fearing that Liu Wei would burn down the house as soon as he left the gate, and before leaving, he took the candles with him.

When Rong Leng came back again, he saw Liu Wei was still sitting where he was before, but his eyes were far away, staring at the pages of books on the table.

He handed her the newly bought "Diamond Sutra", and after Liu Wei took it, he flipped through two pages at random, but suddenly paused: "This... is different."

Rong Leng looked at it, but didn't find any difference.

Liu Wei walked to the table, picked up a half-dry page, compared it with the new book, and said, "One page is printed in ink, and the other is printed in print. Grandfather's book is made of type."

Rong Leng heard the words and compared them. The font on the new book is darker, ink black, and the handwriting is clear. The font on the old book is lighter, grayish, and the handwriting is blurred. Just look at it, the two books The printing materials are indeed not the same, but what can this explain?
Liu Wei said: "Nowadays, books and classics are mostly printed by engraving, that is, first engraving the template, then rubbing it on clean paper, and finally binding it into a book. For this type of engraving, ink printing is easier than printing. The upper shape is also more solid and durable, and there are very few printed blocks. My grandfather’s scripture book was owned many years ago. The more commonly used ink, this book, why use lead printing? Could it be that ink printing was more popular than lead printing at that time? But this is not true, Yunfu also has a lot of classic books, I have read a few of them, some of them are old The ancient books are also printed in ink or copied by hand. That is to say, a few decades ago, ink printing was far more popular than printed printing. The only reason I can think of why this booklet is printed in printed form is, It's the cost."

Rong Leng shook his head, rejecting her statement: "Ink is cheap, while lead is expensive."

Lead is a kind of ore and also a kind of medicinal material. The ancients said that its weight is solid, its nature is slippery, its color is black, and it leads to the kidney.

In the apricot world, lead is often used as medicine, and lead has a great effect and wide range of uses, so the price is much higher than that of ink that can be seen everywhere.

Liu Wei smiled: "Under normal circumstances, the cost of lead is indeed higher than that of ink, but what if it was born near a lead mine?"

Rong Leng was taken aback: "You mean..."

Liu Wei felt suddenly enlightened, and couldn't help laughing: "There is no map in this book, it is just a map. Now we only need to know a few important locations of lead mines in Xianyan Country, and we can judge the source of this book." place."

Rong Leng got up, then walked outside.

Border maps are very important, ordinary bookstores have no right to sell them, and ordinary people dare not draw them privately, but there must be one in Rujiang Palace.

Rong Leng set off for Rujiang Palace, Liu Wei was not idle either, she carefully dried the wet pages, then stacked them into a pile, arranged them in order, and compared them with the new books one by one.

The two editions of the booklet have different fonts and printing colors, but the content described is exactly the same.

Liu Wei couldn't find the difference from the text, but could only work hard on the paper and engraving writers.

It is not a child's play to make a book engraving. First, a large enough engraving is required, and most engraving authors will use their usual fonts for engraving.

For the new book in the ink version, the author of the engraving has indicated on the title page that he is a descendant of a current engraving family, and the block script is used.

However, the author's name marked on the title page of the old lead-type book has only one code name, which is called Qinglan Juke, and he uses italic script.

Qinglan is a branch of orchids, both of which are distributed in the Northwest. Liu Wei boldly assumes that the engraver is from the Northwest?
In addition to the engraving author, there is also a red stamp engraved on the last page of the lead-printed book. The words on the stamp are "knowing its meaning, the Mahayana is the best", which is the summary of the Diamond Sutra. That's right, but the red seal uses Xiaozhuan.

When the engraving of the whole article is in italic script, the seal of Xiaozhuan seems a little strange.

When Liu Wei was still pondering the details of the seal, Rong Leng hurried back and brought back a long scroll.

Unfold the long axis, and there is indeed a picture of Xianyan, Jiangshan and mountains inside.

When borrowing the picture, Rong Leng had asked in advance, and when he unfolded it, he pointed directly at Tianshi Prefecture on the upper left, and said, "Anyi County, Laicheng County, and the two counties are all rich in lead mines, and Ting There are also some stone mines in Jindong County, Jiangzhou."

Liu Wei pointed out the name carved on the title page of the old printed book, and said: "Tianshi Prefecture and Tingjiang Prefecture are both located in the northwest, and Qinglan among the Qinglan residents also comes from the northwest."

Rong Leng frowned, with a bad expression: "Tianshi Prefecture covers an area of ​​over a thousand acres, and Anyi County and Laicheng County each occupy half, not to mention Jindong County in Tingjiang Prefecture also covers an area of ​​several hundred acres. It's a needle in a haystack."

Liu Wei pointed to the red stamp on the last page again: "If we can find out the person who carved this stamp, then the scope should be narrowed down a lot."

The sea of ​​people is vast, the sky is vast, and the earth is vast, so it is not easy to find a seal engraving craftsman within two states.

Liu Wei also knew that it was not easy to find, so she continued to rule out: "The Diamond Sutra is a famous Buddhist classic, and this kind of books are usually issued by big bookstores, and the engraved seals used by big bookstores are definitely not found in small stalls. Carved by hawkers, find out the ranking of the most famous carving experts in the two states in the past 50 years, there should be more clues."

(End of this chapter)